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Rosetta Stone has been a giant in the world of language learning for almost two decades now, and with good reason: It's marketed the idea of learning a useful skill with minimal effort.

While there's no software suite out there that can truly make you fluent in a foreign tongue, Rosetta Stone has proven particularly adept at expanding its students' vocabularies and getting them comfortable with the idiosyncrasies of another language, for whenever they're ready to immerse themselves in it fully.

It does this through a polished, organized interface and a series of digestible training exercises.

The teachings here are introductory in nature, so the disc mostly helps with basic vocabulary recognition through a series of interactive lessons and games. You'll learn simple words and sentences, then figure out how to put them together coherently. (For more advanced lessons, you can grab a full Level 1-5 set of courses for $230.)

It's best to think of this like a 101 course for adults with some free time — you'll still need to be active about your self-education if you really want to comprehend the nuances of another language, but if you take the time to try and use a tool like this, you can speed up your mastery without needing a private tutor.

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